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Great Game if you Have the time...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: December 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Ultima Online for over two years. This game is advertised as a "Role Playing Game" where it should be advertised as "Alternate Reality". I spend about 2-3 HOURS a day playing this game- No joke. If you have children, I would not recommend this game because unless they play it everyday, and for at least an hour, they will get nowhere. This game is rated Mature Audiences for a reason. I have met some of my best friends thru Ultima. We have luncheons and talk about various UO subjects. One of my close friends is Danish, and I have learned how to speak danish from a game; amazing, isnt it? You can NEVER stop finding new things to do. From slaying dragons to taming them. Guild Warfare, Stealing, Fishing, Ultima Online has it all. If you are a serious RPG fan, go for Ultima.

GREAT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 19
Date: October 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this online game for a little while over a year now, and I plan on playing it for a great while more. It consists of many hours of fun, daily. There is endless possibilities, you can hunt monsters, be a blacksmith, be a carpenter, make friends, tame monsters, etc. There is endless possibilities.

Yeah, I've Felt that way at times. . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: March 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ultima Online is a truly diverse game. I have played it for over a year now and am entirely pleased with it. "Former UO Player" expresses feelings I have had with the game perfectly. HOWEVER, I usually only feel that way after I have been PKd ;-). There are a lot of mean people that play this game only to frustrate us "roleplayers" it seems, but it is easy to avoid them.

If you play this game long enough, you will meet a core group of people to hang around with. whether you are a starry-eyed, neophyte adventurer or a grimy, grey-faced blacksmith, you WILL fill some niche in this HUGE and diverse society. You can join a guild and hack through a dungeon with a group of friends who are striving to eliminate evil, or you can band together with thieves and brigands to intercept some poor inexperienced group of adventureres. Its all up to you.

It is worth $19.99 just to check this game out for a month, trust me. You have to pay $10 a month to play, but they put this to good use providing patches every month to deal with player-reported bugs and problems. In reference to "Former UO Player"'s complaint that it is too easy to macro and have a grandmaster character in a week, Origin just provided a new patch that completely eliminates the effectiveness of macroing (trust me, I have tested it! ;-), among other things. All $$ is well-spent $$ with UO.

The best game I've ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first began playing Ultima Online SOO long ago, I had never played an online/multi-player game before and had no idea what to expect. I almost instantly came to love this game. It is extremely addictive (you will find the hours from evening to morning flying by in a blur) and vastly entertaining.

There is no "one way" to do anything. You can aim for a craftsman, a monster-killing warrior, a PvPer, a pure mage, or a hybrid of the above. yOu can buy a house (there's a housing patch going in soon for more land), buy a boat, buy a horse, whatever.

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a cable modem to play this game well. I have a 56k modem and an AOL account and have had no problems with running the game. Lag is a slght problem if you play at busy times (Saturday night at 7 pm) but I generally don't have too many problems with it.

You even get Counselors and GMs to help you with your problems. I have heard MANY people say that they have received terrible service from in-game support but I have never had longer than a 5 minute wait for either a Counselor or a Game Master.

I highly recommend this game to anyone who wants an alternate reality to "escape" to. =)

ULTIMA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I WANT TO BUY ULTIMA ON LINE SECOND AGE

UO is a good one.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the most addictive game I've ever played. I will caution you that once you start playing, you won't be able to stop. $10 a month is pocket change and it's well worth it. The game is however very laggy, and this can be very, very frustrating. UO is a skill based game. This means that each character (you can make up to 5 characters on each server) has 36 different skills (swords, magery, blacksmithing, animaltaming, etc.). Each skill will be between 0 and 100 (each character starts with 100 skill points which can be distributed among either 2 or 3 different skills). Depending on the level of each of your skills, your characters can do different things (practicing skills will raise them). Also each character has strength, dexterity, and intelligence between 0 and 100. BE CAUTIONED: All 36 skills added up can cannot exceed 700. Also your strength, dexterity, and intelligence added up cannot exceed 225. This means you shouldn't make one character, for example, a mage, a blacksmith, and a tamer. But you can, for instance, make a mage, a blacksmith, and a tamer with 3 separate characters. This game will seem complex when you first start, and there are tons and tons of lots of tricks most good players know about fighting and increasing skills. But you will learn them as well. It takes a massive time commitment to make a few good characters, but it's a very fun game.

You want to join another world?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: October 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Here's your chance. To become part of a growing universe of the alter-ego's.

You can have many different characters, on a variety of servers..Which in turn = major diversity and opportunity.

This is all about living another 'hero, thief, warlock, average joe' life..and its done well. Down to the details: writing a book, cooking food, making clothes, working for a living, buying a house, slaying monsters, finding treasure...the list goes on.

Its also a beautiful reminder of the many Ultima games that graced the software age. Buy this game and leave your regular for awhile. It's like a vacation from you...

(also recommended, Ultima Collection)

The most interesting game i have every played!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It is very played out. Hard to advandce and makes it challenging. Very long and can keep you in it for a long period a time. You wont want to stop!!!

ultimo better than cosrin?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

well it is took a great deal of thought but alas the material thought of money and cost soon overthrew my decision... cosrin in my thought is still the best game for dedicated roleplay although textbased it provides a great deal of flexibility and adverseness like limitless description's where as most visual-based games have only certain graphix you must use in creating the appearance of your persona. but the cost for keeping the cosrin gate open is high and do indeed wish that the cist was less and fixed like that of ultimo but unlike cosrin ultimo costs alot less than cosrin and there for is more popular and for the beginer ultimo is the best game for you and the more visual-based people must reguard it as a great game and a must buy. not to say i dont like it i think it is great and a huge world to discover unlike cosrin wich consists of only one island and usually is inhabbited by no more than 40 or so adventuerers at a time but still the fact of price arose and forced me (very reluctantly) to give up cosrin and go onward to the more affordable games such as ultimo this here is my name within the lands of ultimo and should be heeded as a great assassin and thief extrordinair

Say Goodbye to your Social Life...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game gets very addictive once you start it. I will have to admit that when you begin your start in this great Fantasy world that it seems like you're not going to get anywhere, but that isn't true. Keep playing, you will get it eventually, and then its great!

You can choose to have your character do over many, many things. You can be a swordsman, or a blacksmith, tinkerer, or perhaps a fisherman. You may choose an artist, or a musician. Or maybe you can be a theif or a cold blooded killer. The fun can never end. If you start to get bored after awhile, start something new! Be something else, explore new cities. Play on new shards, meet new people. This game goes on forever!

To give you an example, here is what im like in the game... My hometown is Vesper, where I began playing. I started out as a swordsman and faught smaller creatures. Got gold, but not too much. Then I decided I needed more and became a Carpenter, cutting down trees and making shields and furniture then selling them to make a profit. Then I made a blacksmith to help in on the money. Now I am a Grand Master blacksmith, and a master miner. I mine different minerals and make items of weapons and armor. This is the kind of things you can do in this game! Become famous and kind like the way I did. Or do evil crimes and murder people and have a bad reputation. Its up to you! Its in your hands!

I recommend buying this game! You'll have fun, trust me. =)

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